“Beauty adds to goodness a relation to the cognitive faculty: so that "good" means that which simply pleases the appetite; while the "beautiful" is something pleasant to apprehend.” MeanBeautifulPleaseGoodnessRelationAddPleasantFacultyAppetiteCognitive Book:Summa Theologica, Volume 2 (Part II, First Section) Source: Summa Theologica, Volume 2 (Part II, First Section)
“Excellent anthology... a celebration of our goodness and our potential for growth. The sense of celebration is stretched by the beautiful photographs.” BeautifulGrowthGoodnessPhotographExcellentCelebrationAnthology Author:Joseph C Zinker
“Long may it remain in this mixed world a question not easy of decision, which is the more beautiful evidence of the Almighty's goodness, the soft white hand formed for the ministrations of sympathy and tenderness, or the rough hard hand which the heart softens, teaches, and guides in a moment.” WorldHeartMayLongHardMomentsHandsBeautifulEasyWhiteDecisionTeachGoodnessEvidenceGuidesRoughTendernessProvidenceAlmighty Author:Charles Dickens
“He who cannot see the beautiful side is a bad painter, a bad friend, a bad lover; he cannot lift his mind and his heart so high as goodness.” MindHeartBeautifulSidesBeautyLoversGoodnessPainterLiftsBad Friend Book:Some of the Source: Some of the
“Then how can you ever know about the beautiful goodness of Mud? How bad it wants to be things. How bad it wants to get on your legs and arms and take your footprints and handprints and how bad it wants you to make it alive! Mud is always ready to play with you. Seriously you should try it!” KnowsWantShouldTryingPlayBeautifulAliveReadyArmsGoodnessLegsMudFootprintHandprints Author:Lynda Barry
“Whatever of goodness emanates from the soul, gathers its soft halo in the eyes; and if the heart be a lurking place of crime, the eyes are sure to betray the secret. A beautiful eye makes silence eloquent, a kind eye makes contradiction assent, an enraged eye makes beauty a deformity; so you see, forsooth, the little organ plays no inconsiderable, if not a dominant, part.” IfsHeartKindLittlesSoulPlayEyeBeautifulSecretSilenceCrimeGoodnessContradictionBetrayOrgansDominantEloquentLurkingEmanateHalosDeformityBeautiful Eyes Author:Arthur Frederick Saunders
“When I was very young, I was disgracefully intolerant but when I passed the thirty mark I prided myself on having learned the beautiful lesson that all things were good, and equally good. That, however, was really laziness. Now, thank goodness, I've sorted out what matters and what doesn't. And I'm beginning to be intolerant again.” MatterBeautifulYoungLessonsGoodnessAll ThingsMarkThirtyLazinessWhat Matters Author:Gladys Bronwyn Stern
“God who is goodness and truth is also beauty. It is this innate human and divine longing, found in the company of goodness and truth, that is able to recognize and leap up at beauty and rejoice and know that all is beautiful, that there is not one speck of beauty under the sun that does not mirror back the beauty of God.” KnowsHumansDoeGodAbleBeautifulFoundCompanySunDivineTruth IsGoodnessMirrorsLongingLeapRejoiceInnateSpecksGoodness And Truth Author:Roberta Bondi